Art and Writing by Fernando Llosa

If the facts of the often conflictive division between people and between different cultures are, directly, independently and deeply understood, they themselves make obvious to the mind that any remedial action coming—as all remedial actions do—from the same self-isolating conditioning, have no validity whatsoever. The suffering created by psychological separation and cultural fragmentation cannot possible be resolved, ever, by anything that confirms and reinforces these same causes. There is no further scape then. The available evidence forces the mind to stop thinking about a better probable self and a better probable future. And this is silence: a mind no longer defined or activated by a particular sense of the past and by the future determined by that past and, therefore, a mind free of the “me” with all its noisy internal and interpersonal conflicts and also largely free of all the constraints and fixed imperatives that characterize any given social and cultural environment.